THE VALUE OF TIME

Mike Murdock said “Time is the only thing God gave to us in exchange for anything he promises.” Suffice that, what you don’t have is a result of what you haven’t exchange your time for. There are three things we can do with time; 1. Spend it 2. Waste it 3. Invest it. It is advisable to spend 20% of your time on things that will give you 80% result.

Invest your time wisely by carefully choosing who you will spent it with.

Don’t allow people to put unnecessary demand on your time. You can always respectfully turn down some responsibilities if you wouldn’t create time for them. Anybody who has control over your time has control over your life. Avoid cheap chat that doesn’t bring or add any value to you. Know when and how to cut a conversation short by not being rude.

You are better-off sleeping than talking to some people. If you don’t place value on your time nobody else will. I got this phrase from an advert here in South Africa “Life is too short to go to bank.” Not all good activities necessarily demands your presence. One of the common thing that steals our time in this century is social network. The truth is, you don’t need to read all your friend’s post to know the latest thing in town.

Social network can be very obsessive if you are not discipline with it. Nobody pays you for being the first person to share the news, exception of journalist. You don’t need to keep a watch about the latest happenings in others people life by sniffing around their social account. You don’t need to respond to all chat. Subscribe to the groups that interest you and that will add values to you.

Our life is measured in time that is why we call it lifetime. I was having a chat with some folks earlier this week, in the course of the conversation I asked one of them how long he sleeps. I didn’t know I was preparing to receive the greatest shock of the week. Oh my God! I can’t believe it, he sleeps 5pm and wakes 5am. 12hrs! I tried to break it down for him to fully understand what he is doing to himself.

After about 5 minutes of calculation, he realized he has been sleeping 3½ days per week, 14 days in a month, and if he continues for a whole year he would be sleeping 168 days in 365 days. Meanwhile, by the time he is 30 years old he would have spent almost 14 years sleeping. This is so pathetic for a young lad without having a sleeping problem.

The point is, our life is a sum total of what we choose to do with our time. Many people look back at their life and all they can say is “If only I still have the time…” all our dreams, vision, aspirations, ambitions, target, and goals are time bound. They can only become realistic by a proper management of time. “Work hard at whatever you do because there will be no action, no thought, no wisdom, no knowledge in the world of the dead - and that is where you are going. Eccl 9:10 GNT.

Many people outgrow opportunities by not taking conscious approach to timing. No man can stop the time even though you can stop your watch. It is pointless to manage time without having a plan, time and plan works together. I rather start on time, fail on time and rise back on time. You can go fast in life by going on time and you can go far by going with the right people. Sometimes, our greatest regret in life are not the things we do, but that which we should have done that we didn’t do.

If all life commodities is to be purchased with a certain amount of time in your lifetime, the questions is; how much of your time will you be willing to exchange for gossip? If a bottle of beer cost two days of your lifetime, how many bottles would you have purchased? Unconsciously, that is how many live their life, they purchases what reduces their life – time and later look back in life to regret their actions. Smokers are liable to die young, even smokers knows that. Yet they purchase it.

The best and most expensive gift you can give a man is a portion of your time. When you give people your time, it gives them access to your life, and when people have access to your life they bring demand on you and when you don’t meet their demands it creates disappointments, disappointment brings hatred and hatred brings enmity. Why? Because you gave them your time. Any man who give you a portion of his time has given you a portion of his life. Appreciate it and Value it. I strongly recommend this movie for all my readers “IN TIME”. Thanks